A friendly Caveat To all true Christians, Showing them the true way to Heaven.  
To the Tune of, the Lady's fall.  
 
 

NOw that the day star doth appear  
to God devoutly let us call  
That in the deeds of day light clear  
he'd keep us from misfortunes all.   

Let him temper our tattling tongue  
and bridle so our will,  
Lest horror vile broke us among,  
and strife that sounds full ill.   

Let all the secrets of our hearts  
be clean from filthiness,  
Let slothful sluggishness depart  
from us that study do profess.   

Let mean diet of drink and meat  
beat down the pride of flesh,  
Lest raging in that filthy heat  
it lose of youth the flowers fresh   

Take not in vain Gods holy name  
but use it with reverence,  
For why the Lord all such do blame  
as here commit offence.   

Remember that thou holy keep  
the day of Rest as God doth will,  
Six days thou shalt apply thy work  
but rest the seventh day still.   

For in six days the Lord did frame  
the Heaven, the Earth, the Creatures,  
The seventh he ceased and blest the same  
as time for us on him to call,   

All these precepts the Lord did write  
in the first table made of stone  
And left for us both night and day,  
his ways to think upon.   
 
 

THe second table followeth then  
wherein the Lord instructeth us  
How to behave ourselves always  
and the same is written thus.   

Unto thy Parents honour give  
as God commandeth thee.  
That thou long days and good may'st live  
in Heaven thy place shall be:   

Murder no man by word nor deed  
with Sword or other thing  
Do nought from whence hate may proceed,  
for murder out of heat doth spring,   

Avoid all foul adultery  
and all that their belong,  
All filthy thoughts and lusts of eye,  
all unchaste talk of tongue.   

Take not by fraud nor yet by stealth  
the things that others possess,  
For so to take what is not thine  
it 'tis great wickedness   

Against no man false witness be  
but spoke the truth always,  
For God thy secret thoughts no see  
and will judge thee at the last day.   

Thou shalt not in thy heart desire  
to have thy Neighbour's wife,  
His house nor Land do not require  
nor between them breed no strife.   

Be not desirous to reserve  
his ox, his horse, or beast  
That he is not willing to leave▪  
or what he doth possessed.   

In vain take not the name of God,  
swear not by he nor she,  
The house with plagues is threatened  
where oaths much used be.   

Think on the poor in their distress,  
and God will send thee store,  
The widow and the fatherless  
see you feed at your door.   

Regard the cries of England's wrong,  
turn not thy face away,  
Bear not a proud and lofty mind  
for that will thee decay.   

These be the laws that God did give  
to jacob's feed in wilderness,  
And let us follow them always  
we may his Land possess.   

But such as will his laws neglect  
and walk after fleshly desire,  
The Lord at last he will them put  
into eternal fire.   

From which the Lord deliver us  
and all that trust in thee.  
That when we do depart this world  
in heaven our place may be.    

London, Printed for W. Thackeray, T. Passenger, and W. Whitwood.